The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1C: Restoration and the Eighteenth Century Plus MyLiteratureLab --Access Card Package, 4th Edition

Description

The Fourth Edition of The Longman Anthology of British Literature continues its tradition of presenting works in the historical context in which they were written. This fresh approach includes writers from the British Isles, underrepresented female authors, “Perspectives” sectionsthatshed light on the period as a whole and link with immediately surrounding works to help illuminate a theme, “And Its Time” clusters that illuminate a specific cultural moment or a debate to which an author is responding, and “Responses” in which later authors respond to one or more texts from earlier works.

Table of Contents

*** denotes selection is new to this edition.

THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

SAMUEL PEPYS

The Diary

[First Entries]

[The Coronation of Charles II]

[The Plague Year]

[The Fire of London]

Pepys’s Diary and Its Time

John Evelyn from Kalendarium

Response

Robert Louis Stevenson: from Samuel Pepys

PERSPECTIVES: THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND THE NEW SCIENCE

Thomas Sprat

from The History of the Royal Society of London

Philosophical Transactions

from Philosophical Transactions

Robert Hooke

from Micrographia

John Aubrey

from Brief Lives

MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE

Poems and Fancies

The Poetress’s Hasty Resolution

The Poetress’s Petition

An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book

The Hunting of the Hare

from A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life

Observations upon Experimental Philosophy

Of Micrography, and of Magnifying and Multiplying Glasses

The Description of a New Blazing World

from To the Reader

[Creating Worlds]

[Empress, Duchess, Duke]

Epilogue

JOHN DRYDEN

Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem

Mac Flecknoe

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

Alexander’s Feast

Fables Ancient and Modern

from Preface

The Secular Masque

APHRA BEHN

The Disappointment

To Lysander, on Some Verses He Writ

To Lysander at the Music-Meeting

A Letter to Mr. Creech at Oxford

To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More than Woman

Oroonoko

Response

Thomas Southerne: from Oroonoko: A Tragedy

PERSPECTIVES: COTERIE WRITING

Mary, Lady Chudleigh

To the Ladies

To Almystrea

Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

The Introduction

Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia

A Nocturnal Reverie

A Ballad to Mrs. Catherine Fleming in London from Malshanger Farm in Hampshire

Mary Leapor

The Headache. To Aurelia

Mira To Octavia

An Epistle to Artemisia. On Fame

Advice to Sophronia

The Epistle of Deborah Dough

JOHN WILMOT, EART OF ROCHESTER

Against Constancy

The Disabled Debauchee

Song (“Love a woman? You’re an ass!”)

The Imperfect Enjoyment

Upon Nothing

A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind

WILLIAM WYCHERLEY

The Country Wife

MARY ASTELL

from Some Reflections upon Marriage

DANIEL DEFOE

A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal

A Journal of the Plague Year

[At the Burial Pit]

[Encounter with a Waterman]

PERSPECTIVES: READING PAPERS

News and Comment

from Mercurius Publicus [Anniversary of the Regicide]

from The London Gazette [The Fire of London]

from The Daily Courant No. 1 [Editorial Policy]

Daniel Defoe: from A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol. 4, No. 21 [The New Union]

Periodical Personae

Richard Steele: from Tatler No. 1 [Introducing Mr. Bickerstaff]

Joseph Addison: from Spectator No. 1 [Introducing Mr. Spectator]

from Female Spectator, Vol. 1, No. 1 [The Author’s Intent]

Richard Steele: from Tatler No. 18 [The News Writers in Danger]

Joseph Addison: from Tatler No. 155 [The Political Upholsterer]

Joseph Addison: from Spectator No. 10 [The Spectator and Its Readers]

Getting, Spending, Speculating

Joseph Addison: Spectator No. 69 [Royal Exchange]

Richard Steele: Spectator No. 11 [Inkle and Yarico]

Daniel Defoe: from A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol. 1, No. 43 [Weak Foundations]

Advertisements from the Spectator

JONATHAN SWIFT

A Description of the Morning

A Description of a City Shower

Stella’s Birthday, 1719

Stella’s Birthday, 1727

The Lady’s Dressing Room

Response

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: The Reasons that induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady’s Dressing Room